Samundra Spirit

1 Samundra Spirit APRIL 2008 ISSUE 01 Samundra Spirit APRIL 2008 ISSUE 01 Editorial NoteA Message in Pursuit of Knowledge0304 STCW: The 2010 AmendmentsDismounting a Rudder: To replace the lower Pintle BushRest Hours: Understanding the RequirementsShall I go for an MBA?Know your Ship:Semi-Pressurised Gas CarrierLiquefied Natural Gas (LNG)Is this the Future Fuel for propelling Ships?071011151923 KNOWLEDGE16 SHARING EXPERIENCEB eing Emergency FitJAN 2012 ISSUE 16 Contents25254th Inter-house Cricket ChampionshipSIMS ex-cadets joined ESM managed Fleet during the Last Quarter CAMPUS NEWS121717 Trouble Shooting of Alternator Speed FluctuationResponses for Issue 15 (Oct 2011) -Danger of High Oxygen Content in Inert Gas System CASE STUDY 09 Fresh Water Management Onboard THE ENVIRONMENT 13 ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY1418212224 Poem: An Ode to Merchant NavyCrossword PuzzleWatery but Thirsty Planet: A Reality CheckPrice of Over-confidenceLife is Precious CADETS DIARY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 06 Innovative Techniques to reduce Energy Efficiency Design IndexBackground of cover picture.

2 Silhouette of Ship-in-Campus - by CDT Shaliesh, GME-12, SIMS Lonavala 2005 Against the Odds at DOWN THE MEMORY LANE23 JANUARY 2012 ISSUE : SIMS, LONAVALAV illage Takwe Khurd, Mumbai-Pune Highway (NH4), Lonavala, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra, Pin 410405, India Tel: + 91 2114 399 500 Fax: + 91 2114 399 600 Address: SIMS, MUMBAI5th Floor, Sai Commercial BuildingBKS Devshi Marg, Govandi Station Road, Govandi East Mumbai, PIN- 400088 India Tel: + 91 22 6799 3545 Fax: + 91 22 6799 3546 EDITORIAL BOARDS ikha SinghMr. Biju BabenCapt. Arun SundaramEditorial Director Sikha SinghEditorial Assistant Capt. Rajesh Subramanian Kathiravan s/o Shanmuga S Design & Layout Chen Mian Fang Su IT Support Peter Chan Samundra Spirit is a quarterly in-house magazine produced by Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies (SIMS) for private Editorial Team wants to hear from you!

3 If you wish to submit any feedbacks and/or contributions, feel free to write to the Editor at: note we reserve the right to publish your letters/articles or an edited version of it in all print & electronic NOTE The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant. - PlatoThe purpose and intention behind any writing is the writer s need to express, not impress. An author can produce volumes of pedantic writings filling pages but unless the message is communicated rather than confuse the readers, they are all meaningless. It should not be an author s intention to dazzle the readers with some counterfeited knowledge and power of wordplay. We spiritedly avoid such pitfalls and urge our contributors to do is our clear understanding that the success of Samundra Spirit would depend on effectively communicating and sharing the vast knowledge held by our seasoned veterans to the next generation of seafarers across the industry.

4 Producing a thoroughly readable magazine for all upcoming seafarers and adding value to their knowledge of the industry whenever possible will always remain as our sincere endeavour and we complete the third year of publication of Samundra Spirit , the 16th issue of the magazine so far, it is another proud moment for all of us in the editorial team and a fully dedicated staff - all working out of sheer passion. However, the hardwork pays us well when we receive encouraging words from the readers enjoying the result of our efforts. A big thank you to all of you who bring in such joy to us!We are very pleased that for this New Year issue, we have harvested quite a rich pile of interesting articles on topics ranging from the highly-technical Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in Marine Propulsion to Work to Rest hours Management on board; from personal memory of a sailing chief engineer to a practical guidance on the impor-tance of a MBA degree for a young seafarer.

5 We look forward to the comments and feed back from all our from the regular contributors, it was wonderful to notice a crop of new writers sending in their experiences and thoughts. We would like to make special mention of CE Shivakanth from the ESM fleet for taking time off to send his experience and encourage others like him to send in theirs for the future issues. Accordingly, we had to shelf some of our old contributors to the cold storage in order to make room for the cadet s section carries a special report on the SIMS Lonavala campus on its environment-friendly water management system. The cadets paper won one of the 25 top places in a nationwide contest on technical paper presentation. Overall, although most of the writings sometimes need a good scrub by the editorial team, what make them special are the originality of the content and the writers unique experiences.

6 We are happy that we have turned some experienced seafarers into budding writers! Regular features like the campus news, sports and visitors comment remain part of the offerings here. We do hope that the magazine will retain its flavour and appeal to all our readers curiosity and interest once reading and wishing all our readers a very happy, safe and peaceful New Year! Samundra Spirit | JAN 2012 ISSUE 16 4A Message in Pursuit of Late Steve JobsIn memory of Steve Jobs, founder of APPLE computers, the leg-endary innovator of the 21st century, we reproduce below an excerpt from his speech delivered to the graduates of Stanford University at their campus on 12 June 2005. The message epit-omizes the single-minded focus on pursuit of knowledge in his entire lifetime by Steve Jobs, which translated into the success of APPLE.

7 Indeed a big lesson for all in SIMS with an ambition and aspiration for innovation in our training time is limited, so don t waste it living someone else s life. Don t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people s think-ing. Don t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960 s, before personal comput-ers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras.

8 It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for Hungry. Stay Samundra Spirit | JAN 2012 ISSUE 16 DOWN THE MEMORY LANEA gainst the Odds at Shivakanth is a sailing en-gineer in the ESM managed tanker fleet.

9 He is relating his personal ex-perience as a junior engineer in a company he was sailing at that time. We thank CE Shivakanth for sharing it with our up-coming engineers and welcome such gestures from other experienced seasoned veterans from the fleet as was the First Assistant Engineer sailing on a 15 years old container carrier trading between west coast of USA and east coast of Japan in 2007. I was carrying my family onboard in a view of having a bit of excitement at sea, where it turned out to be overexcitement, as I recall how we overcame a challenging situation (hull damage) with pure teamwork and ingenuity in our approach to work. Amongst failures, hull failure is the worst; where little can be done when we are out at sea. However, the die hard team on board worked on the premise - where there s a will, there s a way and decided not to give up till we repaired the damage and sailed out in full glory!

10 Our vessel, at that time, was berthed at a port in Japan on her last leg of the voyage. We were waiting for one more day to depart for the next destination. At around 10pm, I got a call from chief officer informing that the Bow thruster room was flooding with water. As a part of standard design, container vessels are provided with bow thruster (propeller) across its fore-end for better maneuvering; to obvi-ate the need of an additional tug at the for-ward end. This is perceived as an advantage in the long run and saves cost for the vessel by cutting down on expensive hiring of an ad-ditional tug. By the time I came down, the chief officer had already started pumping out water through bilge ejector to ascertain the source of the water leakage. To our surprise, the water was gushing in with tremendous force from a crack (approx 150 mm to 175 mm long) devel-oped in the propeller tunnel.